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Chemical Senses 2008 33(8):735-738; doi:10.1093/chemse/bjn056
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The 15th International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste

Timothy S. McClintock1, Donald A. Wilson2, Steven D. Munger3, Laura Geran4 and Scott Herness5

1 Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky 2 Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan Kline Institute, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 3 Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine 4 Ohio State University, College of Dentistry 5 Division of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, Ohio State University

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   Introduction
 
The 15th International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (ISOT) meeting marked the 30th anniversary of the host organization, the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, and the 100th anniversary of the scientific description of the umami taste modality. The meeting featured 23 symposia, 177 platform presentations, and more than 500 posters. These numbers reflect the continued maturation and appeal of the chemical senses as a field of research. Reports of significant, even surprising, findings abounded. Advances on some long-standing problems were described and new problems were revealed.


   Olfaction
 
In olfaction, our understanding of the encoding of odor signals continues to improve. Several presentations reported the identification of odor agonists for odorant receptors (ORs), the largest effort being described in reports by Joel Mainland and Hiroaki Matsunami (Duke University). They matched 62 mouse and human receptors with at least one odorant agonist, more than doubling the number of mammalian ORs with known agonists. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Taste
 

   Conclusions
 

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